Archival science derives its construction of authenticity through the management of aggregates of records with reference to their functional, procedural, and documentary contexts from the principles of diplomatics. Diplomatics, a parent discipline to arch

Archival science derives its construction of authenticity through the management of aggregates of records with reference to their functional, procedural, and documentary contexts from the principles of diplomatics. Diplomatics, a parent discipline to archival science and legal theory that was developed to authenticate medieval documents, examines the genesis and form of individual documents. The diplomatic understanding of authenticity is that a document is authentic when it is what it claims to be.